Mortgages
Mortgage approvals fall to record low
The number of mortgages approved for people buying a house dived by nearly 70 per cent during the past year to hit a new record low, figures showed today.
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Sunday, 27 July 2008
The reports intended to make housing chains run more smoothly are accused of achieving the opposite, finds Kate Hughes
Rates fall below seven per cent but how long can they stay there?
Sunday, 27 July 2008
Julian Knight finds that homebuyers should take advantage of deals from the likes of Halifax and Nationwide while they last
The bar is lowered, but first-time buyers are still struggling to live the dream
Sunday, 27 July 2008
The falling market is hampering government schemes to help people on to the ladder.
Mortgage approvals plunge by 66% in a year
Thursday, 24 July 2008
Would-be home buyers, businesses desperate for investment funds and bankers facing the possibility of ruin received unwelcome news yesterday from the Bank of England.
The Mortgage Clinic: 'Should we cash in our endowment policy?'
Wednesday, 23 July 2008
'We took out a 25-year interest-only mortgage in 1987, along with a Standard Life endowment, but we no longer need the endowment to pay off the mortgage nor the life insurance aspect of the endowment policy. Should we carry on paying £42 a month for this policy until it matures in 2012, or should we cash it in now?' Sally Jenkins, Sutton Coldfield
Your family is growing, your home is groaning. But no one wants to sell
Sunday, 20 July 2008
In a dead market, many households will find that they need an extension to give them room to breathe. Laura Howard sees how to fund a loft or conservatory
The Mortgage Clinic: How do I escape from Northern Rock's SVR?
Wednesday, 16 July 2008
I bought my flat days before the Northern Rock crisis, on a 4.89 per cent fix with the same bank that ends in October. I have 60 per cent equity in the flat, but my mortgage is seven times my income. However, I am due a pay rise – would I qualify for Woolwich's lifetime tracker or should I resign myself to the 7.49 per cent Rock SVR? PS, by email
From May to May, home loan approvals down 44 per cent
Sunday, 13 July 2008
The home loan market continues in its state of torpor, according to the latest survey from the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML).
You run from high rates but then the charges whack you
Sunday, 13 July 2008
As fixed mortgages become too expensive, borrowers have been turning to variable deals – where high arrangement fees lurk. By Laura Howard
Brokers fined and banned in FSA crackdown
Sunday, 13 July 2008
City regulator the Financial Services Authority (FSA) has continued its clean-up of the mortgage advice market.
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